First, Do No Harm: The President's Cousin Explains Why His Hippocratic Oath Requires Him to Oppose ObamaCare

By Milton R. Wolf

New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. The discussion what role—if any—the government should play in regulating and dictating the delivery of health care in the United States has become ground zero in the much larger age-old struggle between statism and individual liberty. Personifying this struggle is the conflict between the big government schemes of President Barack Obama and the free market principles of the President's own cousin, the private practice physician Milton R. Wolf, M.D. When Barack Obama and Dr. Milton Wolf met for the first time in May 2010, it marked the beginning of a new phase in this all-American family feud. In this work, Dr. Wolf takes the gloves off and describes the results of decades of government intervention in health care, the disastrous doubling down on failure of ObamaCare and finally the alternative free market reforms that will save our system and ultimately our nation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Apr 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9780062094261

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About Voices of the Tea Party

Voices of the Tea Party is a real-time collaborative forum for Tea Partiers around the country that delivers in-depth information on tactics, strategy, and policy from on-the-ground activists through the use of inexpensive and easy to download e-books. The series will serve the vibrant online community of everyday Americans who launched and continue to drive the Tea Party movement, by taking their collaborative discussions to a much higher level. Tea Party supporters around the country will now be able to instantly access best practices that have succeeded elsewhere, hear the stories of others in the movement, and learn from Tea Partiers with specific policy ideas and expertise. Perhaps more important, they will be able to engage with other thought leaders by submitting their own e-book proposals for possible inclusion in the series. (Please see our website for details: broadsidebooks.net.) Readers and writers alike can thereby join the important national discussion within this ever-expanding community of citizen-activists who have dedicated themselves to securing the movement’s core values of constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets.

Series editor Michael Patrick Leahy has been one of the driving forces of the Tea Party movement from its inception. He’s a co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, which sponsored the very first national Tea Party demonstrations; the February 27, 2009, Nationwide Chicago Tea Party; and the April 15, 2009, Tax Day Tea Party. He is also the author of The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement, to be published by Broadside Books in January 2012. His website is http://www.michaelpatrickleahy.com.

Chapter One

A Collision of Two Worldviews

One day by chance my mother, Margaret Wolf, read of an Illinois state senator preparing for a United States Senate campaign. She didn’t recognize the candidate’s name, but the article did mention his great-uncle Charles Payne—who also happened to be my mother’s cousin. She realized immediately that Barack Hussein Obama must be the son of her long-lost cousin and childhood friend, Stanley Ann Dunham, so she got on the phone and hit the road. For years she had dreamed of reuniting a family split apart many decades before. Barack Obama welcomed her with open arms, and she even joined him later on the presidential campaign trail.

Barack and I both hail, on our mother’s side, from the McCurry family of Kansas, and it is perhaps fitting that our shared heritage dates back to our common grandparents Thomas and Margaret McCurry, who, like others in our family, carried the scars of America’s Civil War. A generation later, Thomas and Margaret’s children Franklin (my grandfather) and Leona (Barack’s grandmother) would raise their own kids in southeast Kansas. My mother, Margaret, and Barack’s grandmother Madelyn—who passed away just a week before Barack was elected president—were